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For some reason I was not surprised by this result. I felt we were going to underestimate the US and we did. They clearly played with more passion and intent early on and definately caused problems until it became a numbers game. The only reason we launched attack after attack in the 2nd half is...

Yeah, hopefully we'll pull through and the players have learnt from the Ghana-Czech game that underestimating your opponents can be the worst mistake a team can make. Juve did the same thing to Pool and Arse (sort of)

This honestly worries me as a conservative Azzurri

If there's at least one thing I'm happy about, it's Lippi's versatility and given the squad, it makes us a lot less predictable than previous tournies

I'm still wondering who Zambrotta's full back partner will be. Lippi has many variations available but I think he'll choose Zaccardo coz he'll want Zambro to do all the marauding and him staying back as he wanted Grosso to do against Ghana. I know some might not agree with this but I honestly...

I agree about the comfotablity thing. I really felt more stressed bout the Ghana game coz I thought it'd be more of a potential banana skin but I still hope La Nazzionale play as if they dont know bout the US's Czech performance.

I'm a bit conservative about expecting a USA thrashing. If there's something I've noticed this WC is that teams are rarely going down easy. Ukraine and USA are the only teams to have been battered so-far. It would be the worst error 2 go into this thinking we've won as other teams did e.g...

To be honest, despite Grosso's performance yesterday, I'd still keep him in and put Zambro on the right but I think Lippi will go with Zaccardo instead. I somehow dont see Oddo coming into the frame

When Zambro comes back, does it mean out with Grosso or Zaccardo?

I think his performance was quite good. Skysports gave him an unfair rating of 5. I especially loved his 2 through passes for Gila and Perrotta's one-on-ones. On another ratings note, I saw a Ghanian player with a rating of 0. Is that even legal?